This may very well be the most transparent and meaningful episode we've recorded yet. (At least in regards to my own experience of losing my religion.)
A journey into the depths of my own past hurts, current fears, and repressed anger that I am still endeavoring to be free from. Owning my own shit and slowly learning how to cast off the net of religion. By which I grow continually free of anger I've held against the ones that introduced me to the religion.
Growing to love all people equally is not a task as a human I may ever reach. Certainly not one I can reach alone.
Seth, a self-proclaimed Christian Mystic shows me a path. But it's not a new one. I've been shown it before. Many times before. But I am finally getting to a point of suffering to take the deeper journey onto this path.
This episode you have the opportunity to be a fly on the wall to some of my own revelations and desires. Imagine you're the fly over looking our conversation from my therapists bookcase. But instead of crying, we're are drinking!
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Terra and Leo are my friends. Terra is a successful working Mom of two. While working and raising the Kids with Jeff, one of my good friends, and the kid's Dad. (Papa as they call him.)
Terra had a Christian upbringing through the Foursquare denomination. As a native of Portland Oregon, she attended Imago Dei Community. Upon moving to Seattle, it seemed like Mars Hill Church was the best option in attending a church in the Seattle area that might be like how Imago Dei was in Portland. We can all just imagine how that ended up going. Which in turn, led her not to ascribe to Christianity anymore.
Being a former Christian, now recovering Jesus follower myself, I find her story to be all too common these days. The story's like Terra's need to be told. They need to be heard, and they need to be sympathized with so that we can become a better functioning common humanity. A humanity not divided by religion and race, doctrine and dogma.
Now in raising two kids, Terra and Jeff have never told the kids about God, but Leo has come up with some conclusions of his own. This well-behaved, rad six-year-old boy joins his mom, shares why he doesn't swear, why he wants to be a good boy, and how he can love his sister even though she may not be, "as well behaved" as he is.
THIS EPISODE IS AWESOME! Because Leo continues to steal the show!
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John is one of the few people I have ever met that has no religious background at all. He would refer to it as a more naturalist upbringing. However, his experience with televised American Christianity is hilarious.
John is an amazing artist. A man that speaks his mind and doesn't seem to have a lot of walls or filters that are holding him back from creating art and using words. His transparency in the subject matter of his work such as rampant materialism, capitalist culture, gay culture, and homoeroticism has grown him a large, appreciative following and made him a beloved part of our neighborhood.
John and I chat through religions, the cosmos, myth, legends, culture, pop-art and even drugs and addiction, until we find commonality in allowing creativity to come through you unhindered and the freedom that comes from releasing that art medium without trying to control its outcome.
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We've always wanted Losing Our Religion to be a hilarious and candid look at religion and culture, where I, a former American pastor has drinks with former religious freaks, and others I used to shun. Like Gays, Anarchists, Queers, Atheists, Transsexuals, Punk Rockers, and the rest of us that are considered rejects on this island of misfit toys. This episode is finally getting to that goal. Misfits UNITE!
Much of the heart behind Losing Our Religion has been to highlight how much we can learn from those that are different than us. If you had asked me ten years ago to sit down with a feminist, bisexual, New Yorker. I would have arrogantly laughed, said no thanks, and ran back to my role as an evangelical, charismatic, mega-dick.
But as my personal suffering grew, and my knowledge of the life and teachings of Jesus grew, my Christianity began to crumble, and my walls began to lower. Then my eyes began to open, and the beauty of creation and humanity began to expand. We're all just misfits on this universal island called Earth.
Lysia is a woman who lives on Planet Earth. A recent transplant from Brooklyn, she enjoys bringing this up early and often in conversations, while making sweeping generalizations about how different NYC is than Seattle. She was a theatre (spelling intentional) major in a past life but quickly realized that things like food and rent money were pretty important. So she grew up and has been working in technology for the last 15 years.
She likes whiskey and cigarettes and cussin. She doesn't like kids, organized religion, or vanilla ice cream. Former partners have said that she has a long history of strong opinions. If you think this sounds like a dating site profile, she would love to meet you.
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